Two protesters who were suspended from the Yarra Bend bridge east of the Melbourne CBD have come down safely, having scaled the structure to protest the pending deportation of asylum seekers to Nauru.
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The Greens’ Deputy Leader has a new idea for a day of national mirth and holiday-making. Get ready for Greg Hunt Day.
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Australia’s Minister for the Environment has been handed a prestigious award. Think he didn’t deserve it? Just have a look at his record, writes Max Chalmers.
It’s official. You may have always suspected it to be true but now we know it as an absolute fact. Greg Hunt, beloved so dearly in his home nation, has been awarded the title of World’s Best Minister. You go, Gregory.
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“Imagine yourself standing in the ocean and you are digging your toes into the sand, trying to keep your head above the water as each wave rolls past.”
Who could that be? An unnamed scientist at the CSIRO, whose job in climate research fell to the axe in the latest wave of cuts? Perhaps a seaside property owner, living under a rock now threatened by sea-level rise? A Pacific Islander, maybe, pleading with the Australian government to quit profiting from the export of fossil fuels that is sinking their homeland?
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Sure, Aboriginal people in the remote Aboriginal community of Aurukun in the far north of Cape York might be living in abject poverty.
And sure, they might have some of the worst life statistics on earth. Indeed, according to a report, Dropping off the Edge, released last year:
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